A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought… The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren’t equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it’s just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Get mad, then get over it.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Life well spent is long.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.